The SEI helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Its core purpose is to help organizations improve their software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect free, within budget and on time, every time.

Abstract

The electric power grid is the largest and most complex machine in the world and it is now critically overburdened. Climate change, available technology and the current economic crisis represent the final tipping point for a much needed overhaul.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, if the grid were just 5% more efficient, the energy savings would equate to eliminating the fuel and greenhouse gas emissions from 53 million cars - one of the reasons that the DoE is supporting this effort through its Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability and National Energy Technology Laboratory.

On March 30, 2009 at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, IBM and Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will formally launch a framework which provides utilities with a roadmap through their smart grid transformation - from technological to regulatory to organizational.